English rugby club Saracens have confirmed All Blacks lock Chris Jack is on their wish-list following the World Cup.
The Daily Mail reported the Watford-based club were prepared to pay £750,000 ($2.15 million) to secure the 28-year-old, who has missed the opening rounds of the Super 14 becauseof the World Cup conditioning programme.
"He is one of the players we are looking at," Saracens' chief executive Mark Sinderberry said.
"It would be great if we could get him but these things don't happen overnight. We'd like to think we will make one or two significant signings.
"We are 20 per cent of the way there -- that's as much as I can say."
Jack, a 57-test veteran a back row forward, has been a virtual automatic choice for the All Blacks in recent years.
Saracens have a long track record of importing top internationals from the southern hemisphere since the advent of professionalism over ten years ago.
Expensive signings have included Wallabies first five-eighth Michael Lynagh, France's most-capped player Philippe Sella, Springbok captain Francois Pienaar, Australian double World Cup winner Tim Horan, and former All Blacks skipper Taine Randell.
Another Crusaders player and current All Black, Aaron Mauger, will join Leicester after the World Cup on a 2-1/2 year deal amounting to an estimated £250,000-plus a year.
